Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 05:07pm on 11 Feb 2026,Wednesday Tech Today
Days after Anthropic AI safety lead Mrinank Sharma resigned warning "the world is in peril," OpenAI engineer Hieu Pham publicly expressed feeling AI's "existential threat," stating its disruptive impact on jobs, society, and human relevance is "when, not if." Pham, currently on OpenAI's technical staff with previous experience at xAI, Augment Code, and Google Brain, questioned what remains for humans when AI "becomes overly good and disrupts everything." His concerns echo rising alarm within Silicon Valley as companies accelerate AI development. Geoffrey Hinton, the "AI godfather," previously warned advanced systems could become uncontrollable if more intelligent than humans without shared goals, expressing regret about rapid advancement speed. (PC: India Today)
